Title Papyrus, Vienna G 2315 Composer Euripedes: I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. And though it’s true, you will lose out on the marriage of my ill-fated sister, here, whom I have promised you, in honour of our friendship but marry another woman and have children with her. Protect it from neglect.
There is one small hope for us. Neither your noble birth, nor Apollo who sits upon his tripod will be of any help to you now. Twins lions! This is the whore who has betrayed her husband and her land!
There was your brother with his friend, Pylades heading our way. I beat my head, in praise of beautiful Persephone,
My horn-tipped bow! Among them, the lamb with the golden fleece!
Well then, since die we must, then let us find some way to make Menelaos suffer the same misfortune. %PDF-1.4 He ruled Greece as if with some divine power.
Still I do grieve for my sister, Klytaemestra! That of having an undisciplined tongue. What went on in your mind when your mother –your very own mother!- bared her breast to you and in tears begged you not to murder her! If only both of our bodies were buried in the same coffin, made of cedar! city in this hymn of praise appears in, some measure to compensate for the effect of the preceding scene• • A general Introduction to the life and work of Euripides .
Swish, swish!
No, mother don’t release those horrible women! Do not prefer the company of criminals to those who live by the law!
She’s taken on the role of the “ill-fated one!”
Then his son kills his mother and then his son, seeking vengeance, continues with the murders. Leave your couch and come here.
Honour her. I am aware of the impious deed I performed: I have killed my mother. What melancholy it gives me when I think of the miserable despair that has gathered around its hearth!
But if he can’t control his rage and charges at you, begin to cut Hermione’s throat.
Now this man got up and proposed that Orestes should be awarded the prize of an athlete. The Orestes Of Euripides With Brief Notes By F A Paley.
Period: Ancient: Piece Style Ancient: Instrumentation voice She knew she had sinned! Sweet speeches, speeches that lack wisdom may persuade the people but they are also a great menace to the whole city whereas speeches which carry good, intelligent advice are always of benefit to the city; a benefit that one can’t see straight away but will see it in the long run.
What pleasure it gives me to see it after Troy! I think that’s the full extent of my thinking. Just uttering these thoughts of mine, even in such fleeting words, is a great joy!
A miserable hour! After he left Troy he wandered about the seas for a very long time. They run around everywhere and some say no, it’s all right, not trap and other men say yes, this is trap for daughter of Tyndareus. A house that sprung from the marriage with gods! I beat my head in honour of the young goddess who rules the world below! Would he not then, outraged by me, send his furies to haunt me? Remember that Agamemnon can hear you from down below, in the world of the dead.
If he has brought Helen here then he’s brought us a great deal of trouble. The song of Troy, fall down! Your calm and sanity has been taken over again by this frenzy!
You are neither a woman born nor a man alive! Our Fate will take us away from the god’s light!
For as things are we are as purchased slaves and exiles because of our mother, who turned you her husband over for Aegisthus, the man who shared in the guilt of your death. Big arms run around earth? You die because of Helen the beautiful woman from egg born. Bad Helen!